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Article: Get back on track - plea PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Road pricing must not come first
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- March 26, 2007
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BUSINESS leaders in Birmingham have again called on the Government
to put improvements in public transport before before road pricing
measures.
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry made the call as part
of a submission to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee by
the national British Chambers of Commerce about the Transport
Innovation Fund.
BCI chief executive Jerry Blackett, who sat on the steering group
for the West Midlands TIF bid, said: "Local authorities want to
improve public transport but don't have the resources to do it.
"TIF would enable them to achieve that but improvements must be
ahead of road pricing otherwise it could damage the local economies.
That is why ...